- chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
This is the message we need to hear. The bread and butter. I get so tired of people nitpicking GOG and Mozilla over every relatively minor thing when they are some of the only people trying to hold back the deluge of bullshit.
- 11 days
Just a quick reminder that discs that you burn yourself at home do degrade pretty quickly, much faster than pressed discs. I personally have had burned discs that failed after approx. 6 years. It can happen even faster if you use low-quality discs. Even pressed discs can fail after 20 years if you are unlucky.
Using 2 big HDDs (2 for redundancy) full of your installers might be safer in the long run and also easier to manage and backup.
- Janx@piefed.socialEnglish10 days
Sure, but what if there’s a fire!? My favorite game is Ocarina of Time. I don’t want to risk losing it, so I memorized the binary digits that comprise the code. Can’t be too careful!
- Xey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 days
Hope you keep your brain safe. Even then illness can easily rob you of those memories.
- ChexMax@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Fully agree. This is why I’ve made multiple children. Then I train them on the binary digits the way other parents teach shapes, numbers, and the ABCs. Can’t be too careful, it’s best to have multiple backups
- brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Sadly, based on market share, people seem to be picking Steam over GoG.
They almost always pick what’s most convenient/familiar over what’s principled and better in the long term.
- alexquiniou@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
I’m in the opposite team ! I always buy in gog store first then steam. But yeah, steam is here.
- brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Same.
So many games aren’t there, though. And Steams pricing policy means they can’t be cheaper on GoG, anyway, otherwise Valve would delist them.